"Encephalitis, Viral" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Inflammation of brain parenchymal tissue as a result of viral infection. Encephalitis may occur as primary or secondary manifestation of TOGAVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; HERPESVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; ADENOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; FLAVIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; BUNYAVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; PICORNAVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; PARAMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; RETROVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; and ARENAVIRIDAE INFECTIONS.
| Descriptor ID |
D018792
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C02.182.525 C02.290 C10.228.140.430.520.750 C10.228.228.245.340 C10.228.228.399.750
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| Concept/Terms |
Encephalitis, Viral- Encephalitis, Viral
- Infectious Encephalomyelitis, Viral
- Encephalomyelitis, Viral Infectious
- Viral Infectious Encephalomyelitis
- Encephalomyelitis, Infectious, Viral
- Viral Encephalitis
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2001 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2002 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Encephalitis, Viral" by people in Profiles.
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Zhuang K, Leda AR, Tsai L, Knight H, Harbison C, Gettie A, Blanchard J, Westmoreland S, Cheng-Mayer C. Emergence of CD4 independence envelopes and astrocyte infection in R5 simian-human immunodeficiency virus model of encephalitis. J Virol. 2014 Aug; 88(15):8407-20.
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Westmoreland SV, Converse AP, Hrecka K, Hurley M, Knight H, Piatak M, Lifson J, Mansfield KG, Skowronski J, Desrosiers RC. SIV vpx is essential for macrophage infection but not for development of AIDS. PLoS One. 2014; 9(1):e84463.
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Sas AR, Bimonte-Nelson H, Smothers CT, Woodward J, Tyor WR. Interferon-alpha causes neuronal dysfunction in encephalitis. J Neurosci. 2009 Mar 25; 29(12):3948-55.
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Gnann JW. Varicella-zoster virus: atypical presentations and unusual complications. J Infect Dis. 2002 Oct 15; 186 Suppl 1:S91-8.
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Whitley RJ, Gnann JW. Viral encephalitis: familiar infections and emerging pathogens. Lancet. 2002 Feb 09; 359(9305):507-13.
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Hinson VK, Tyor WR. Update on viral encephalitis. Curr Opin Neurol. 2001 Jun; 14(3):369-74.